DoubleClick Serves Up Vast Malware Blitz
On Nov. 12, Web sites’ marketing professionals were flooding industry e-mail lists with reports of complaints from readers that they have been receiving inappropriate ads. Marketing professionals have complained of their ad servers being “hijacked” at sites, including The Wall Street Journal, Discovery and BizJournals. It’s not that the servers have been hijacked, Harvey said, but rather that a toolbar or some other mechanism is overlaying the intended ad with inappropriate content.
“It looks like we are all in the same boat,” one marketer said in a message to the mailing list.
Another marketer said his company had already shut down one of its networks that was devoted to serving up ads and had suspended all third-party ads on another site.
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